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Last news: January 2, 2009 21:47:59

AP - With briefcase in hand and a smile on his face, Attorney General Michael Mukasey returned to work Friday after collapsing during a speech the night before and spurring a 14-hour scare about his health.

AP - The party that Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi created more than a decade ago moved ahead with a plan to abandon its name and dissolve into another conservative bloc.

AFP - The US government has asked the Supreme Court to reimpose a half-million-dollar fine slapped on CBS television for a 2004 broadcast of live images of pop star Janet Jacksons breast, court documents obtained by AFP show.

AP - A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release of five Algerians held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the continued detention of a sixth in a major blow to the Bush administrations strategy to keep terror suspects locked up without charges.

AP - In a 2008 Super Bowl ad, NFL golden boy Tom Brady asked nearly 100 million viewers to text "FIT" to donate $5 to the United Way. About 25,000 people responded, raising $10,000. - [Read more]

Reuters - Californias Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a legal challenge against the states voter-approved ban on gay marriage and let the ban stand in the meantime.

Reuters - A California environmentalist narrowly beat a long-time friend of the U.S. auto industry on Wednesday in a preliminary battle to head the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee. - [Read more]

Politico - Count Joe Lieberman as on board for the HRC as SecState. - [Read more]

AP - Barack Obama is enlisting former Senate leader Tom Daschle as his health secretary, embracing a third Washington insider in the early stages of Cabinet-building by the president-elect who promised change. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the capitals most famous woman for two decades, seemed ever more likely to be his secretary of state.

AP - Former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday appealed to Georgians to send Democrat Jim Martin to Washington arguing the states hotly contested Senate runoff must provide a "bridge not a firewall" to the progress promised by President-elect Barack Obama. - [Read more]

AP - The FBI is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest of four alleged environmental extremists accused of sabotage attacks in five Western states — including a 1998 firebombing at a Colorado ski resort that caused $12 million in damage. - [Read more]

AP - Mike Huckabee wouldnt rule out a 2012 run for president Wednesday, but he acknowledged it could be hard to take back the spotlight from fellow Republican Sarah Palin. "Im not ruling anything out for the future, but Im not making any specific plans," Huckabee told reporters at a briefing to promote his new book, "Do the Right Thing."

AP - Associates of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday the former first lady is weighing whether to leave the Senate and become secretary of state in the Obama administration, a job they say she believes is hers if she wants it.

AP - The Cleveland Museum of Art agreed Wednesday to return 14 ancient treasures ranging from Etruscan jewelry to a Medieval cross that authorities say were looted or stolen from Italy.

AP - Republican John McCain has defeated President-elect Barack Obama in Missouri — the last state to be decided in the 2008 presidential election. - [Read more]

AP - Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden says he plans to fulfill his National Guard duties and wont accept an appointment to his fathers U.S. Senate seat.

AP - North Carolina U.S. Sen.-elect Kay Hagan has withdrawn a defamation lawsuit against Elizabeth Dole over a TV campaign ad that Hagan said questioned her Christianity. - [Read more]

AP - Vice President-elect Joe Biden chose as his chief of staff a man who once served in that same role for Vice President Al Gore, Democratic officials said Thursday.

AP - The Labor Department on Thursday announced final revisions in the Family and Medical Leave Act, including new rules defining how families of wounded service members will be able to take unpaid leave to care for them. - [Read more]

AP - Vice President-elect Joe Biden was all smiles Thursday when he paid a courtesy call the man he will succeed, Dick Cheney. But he has insisted he wants to be nothing like him.